"Competitive" is a trait usually coupled with leadership and there is ample historical evidence that millions of people believe this to be true. Every field of life has heralded the achievements of great leaders, coaches, managers, entrepreneurs and teachers who have exhibited a highly competitive nature.
We recognize and applaud this characteristic as a major stepping stone toward true leadership, the leadership that leads to a life filled with abundance, peace, love and joy. Without these early seeds of achievement the necessary passion to rise above the belief in limitation might never have been fired up.
Once this aspect of awareness has been activated and mastered a true leader moves on to the higher understanding of co-operation. This pre-requisite for true leadership indicates the discovery of the basic unity of all people - indeed, all life...All That Is. This understanding involves the release of certain beliefs, leaving space for greater awareness.
Co-operation is unattached to outcomes and is always focused on the good of all. This attitude embraces peaceful co-existence and has left the roller coaster of wins and losses so prevalent in our competitive society. The concept of winners and losers never leads to lasting peace, but it can be a very difficult concept to leave behind.
We see this emerging attribute in few leaders to date, but wherever their light shines, no one can miss it. One such light is Nelson Mandela who said:
“And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
We may quickly dismiss these shining lights as unique and unrealistic in today's world. True! But is today's world really what we want?
This kind of leadership speaks of another kind of world that suggests, as Gandhi said:
"We must be the change we desire in our life."
This begins with one or two people who are free of the opinions of others and steps out of the ranks of rote, dancing to their own rhythm. Eventually, others join until finally a critical mass occurs and as the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said:
"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident."
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